Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-04-22
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE's SUN.
DAY SERMON
Subjects "The Overthrow OF the
Monster"

In france .tOr three centuries the almanacS
made the year begin at Easter, until Charles
TX made the year begin at January lst. In
the Tower of London there is royal pay.
roll of Edward l., on which there
is an entry of eighteen pence for four
hundred colored and pictured Easter
eggs, with which the people sported.
In Russia, slaves were fed and aims were dis
tributed on Easter Ecclesiastical councils
met at Pontus at Gaul, at Rome at Achaia
TO decide the particular day, and after con-
troversy, more animated than gracious, de-
cided it, and now through all Christendom,
in some way the first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next after
March 81 is filled with Easter rejoicing
The Royal Court of the Sabbaths is made
up Of hfty-two. Fifty-one are princes in tho
royal household but Easter is queen. She
wears richer diadeln, and sways more
jeweled sceptre, and in her smile nations are
lrradiated. Unusually welcome this year be-
cause of the harsh winter and the late spring,
she seems to step out of the slow-bank
rather than the conservatory, come out of the
North instead of the South, out of the Arctic
rather than the tropics, dismOunting from the
icy equinox; but welcome this queenly day,
holding high up i'll her right hand the
wrenched-off bolt of Christ's sepulchre and
holding high up in her left hand the key to
all the cemeteries in Christendom.
1t is an exciting thing to see IN army
routed and flying They run each other down.
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Unwheeled artillery. Hoof of horse on breast
of wounded and dying man. You have read
of the French falling back from Sedan, or
Napoleons track of $4,000 corpseS in the
snow-banlds of Russia, or of the retreat
of our own armies from Manassas, or of
the five kings tumbling over the rocks of Be-
thoran with their armies, while the hail
storms of heaven and the swords of JoShua's
host struck them with their fury. In my text
is worse discontinue 1t seems that a black
giant proposed TO conquer the earth. He
gathered for his host all the aches and pains
and malarias and cancers and distempers
and epidemics OF the ages. lie marched
them down, drilling them in the north
east wind and amid the sluSh
of tempestS He threw up barIicades ofgrave-
mound. He pitched tent of charnel house.
Some OF the troops marched with slow tread
commanded 10y conSumptionS, some i'll double
quick, commanded by pneumonias, Some ne
took by long besiegement of evil habit, and
some by one stroke of the battle axe of cas-
ualty. With bony hands he pounded
at the door of hospitals and sick rooms,
and won all the victories i'll all the great
battlefields Of all the five continents. Forward
march, the conqueror of ConqucrorS, and all
the Generals and Commanders-in- Chief, and
all Presidents and Kings and Sultans and
Cars drop under the feet of his war-charger
But one Christmas night his antagonist was
born. AS most of the plaques and sick
uSSSSS anu NGSDOGlSlilS COLlo OUT
of the East, it was appropriate that
the new conquerOr should come out of
the same quarter. Power is given Him to
awaken all the fallen of all the centuries aud
of all lands and marshal them against the
black giant. Fields have already been won
but the, last day of the worlds exist
ence will see the decisive battle When
Christ shall lead forth His two brigades,
the brigade of the risen dead and the brigade
of the celestial host, the black giant will fall
back, and the brigade from the riven
sepulchres will take Him from beneath and
the brigade of descending immortals will tako
Him from above, and death shall be swaI-
lowed up in victory.
The old braggart that threatened the con-
quest and demolition of the planet has lost
his throne has lost his sceptre has lost his
palace, has lost his prestige, and the one word
written over all the gates of mausoleum and
catacomb and metropolis, on cenotaph and
sarcophagus, on the lonely khan of the Arc
tic explorer, and on the catafalque OF great
cathedral, written in capitals of azalea
and Gala lily, written in musical cadence,
written In doxology of great assemblages,
written on the sculptured door of the family
vault, is victory" Coronal word emban-
nered word, apocalyptic word, chief word of
the triumphal arch under which conquerors
return.
Victory! Word shouted at Culloden and
Balaklava and Blenheim, at Megiddo and Sol
ferino, at Marathon, where the Athenians
drove back the Modes; at Poictiers, where
Charles Martel broke the ranks of the Sara
Gems; at Salamis, where Themistocles in
the great sea fight COMPOUNDED the
Persians, and at the door of the
Eastern cavern Of chiseled rock, where
Christ came out through a recess and
throttled the King of Terrors and put him
back in the niche from which the celestial
Conqueror had just emerged. Aha! when
the jaws OF the Eastern mausoleum took
down the black giant death was swallowed
up in victory" proclaim the abolition OF
DEATH
The old antagonist is driven back into nv
theology with all the lore about Stvgian ferry
and Charon with oar and boat MelroSs
Abbey and kenllworth Castle are no more in
ruins than is the sepulchre: We shall have
no more to dc with death than we have
with the cloak-room at a Governors OF
Presidents levee. We stop at SUCH cloak.
room and leave in charge of a servant on
overcoat, our overshoes, our outward ap-
pare that we may not be impeded in the
brilliant round of the drawing groom. Well,
my friends, when we go out of this world we
are going to kings banquet, and to recep-
ton of monarchs and at the door of the tomb
we leave the cloak of flesh and the wrappngs
with which we meet the storms of this
world. AT the close of an earthly reception
under the brush and broom of the porter the
coat or hat may be handed to us better than
i Mnen we resigned IL, ana tne CLOAK OF human
and frightened and purified and glorified.
i1u anu 40 lloC want our podles returneo
as Cney are now. we want TO get rld OF al
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